DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL ALTARS

TEXT:  I SAMUEL 7:7-11

INTRODUCTION

In the Bible, altars are designed for sacrifice as an act of worship. We notice in the above story that the Lord thundered with a great thunder upon the enemies of Israel after Samuel built an altar and offered a sacrifice to the Lord.

Let us learn:-

I.  WHAT ARE ALTARS? (Exodus 20:24)

• An altar is a place of sacrifice, altars were made of sand or unhewn stones, that is stones that have not been Chiseled with any tool. Others were made of bricks.
• In some cases, a natural rock could automatically be turned into an altar.
• Altars were constructed for God or idols
• Any altar constructed for the purpose of idolatry incurred the wrath of God.
• An altar served as a medium of communication and worship.
• The great men of God in the old testament built altars-Abraham, Noah, Joshua, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, Samuel and David built altars.
• When Elijah challenged the Baal worshippers at Mount Carmel, he told them to construct their own altar.
• When it came to Elijah, he repaired the broken down altar of the Lord.
• An altar could be described as a place where animals are slaughtered for sacrifice
• An altar is a place where blood is shed and where blood cries.
• An altar is a spiritual dining table where God or evil spirits are offered food.
• At the altar, blood is exchanged for something.
• It is a place of spiritual contact with the Spirit world-it could be with either good or evil spirits.
• At the altar, spiritual fellowship with the spirits world is established.
• At the altar that Jacob built at Bethel, the Angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
• An altar is a place where covenants are made with spiritual powers.
• The cross on which Christ died was an altar of a sacrifice of the Son of God.
• An evil altar can be raised by the enemies to steal, kill and destroy.
• An evil altar can be raised to pull down a person, organization or a thing.

II.  COUNTERFEIT ALTARS

• The devil has counterfeited most things God instituted to bless His people.
• Sacrifices are offered at crossroads and by so doing they corrupt the cross of Jesus Christ.
• Many problems of black people can be directly linked to evil altars.
• Altars of affliction operated by priests of wickedness are built for destruction purposes.
• An evil altar is a place of evil transactions where many evil things like infirmities, demotions, failure are planned.
• Evil altars must be dealt with aggressively.

1. Every Satanic altar erected against me and family, be demolished by fire, in Jesus Name.
2. I refuse to be a prisoner of any local altar in the name of Jesus.

III. LOCAL ALTARS ERECTED TO DESTROY LIVES IN OUR ENVIRONMENT

1. Crossroad Altars

• This is a perversion of the cross of Jesus Christ.
• The crossroads is to summon demons from north, south, east and west against a person.
• The victim is bombarded with afflictions

2. Tree Altars

• Sacrifices at trees are usually wrapped with white cloths.

3. Photographic Altars

• Altars can be constructed with wedding photos, family and individual pictures, torment and afflictions are directed.

4. Image Altars

• Symbols are made to represent a person or something in the spiritual world– hurting the image causes hurt in the person.

5. Reporting Altars

• The name of the person is chanted at all times.
• Victims of reporting altars would be hearing their names without knowing who is calling them.

6. Clothing Altars

• When you lose your clothes or your cloth is cut away-pray aggressively

7. River Altars.

• Water demons who sit on people’s loves and keep them submerged.

8. Forest Altars
9. Body part Altars-Placenta, umbilical, hair are used to destroy lives.
10. Astral Altars; Evil words are uttered against the destinies in order to render their lives unfruitful.
11. Altars of evil transfer-Transfer of virtues
12. Family shrines, and physical altars to sacrifice victims of kidnaps.

IV.  HOW TO DEAL WITH EVIL ALTARS

• Recognize their operations.
• Renounce and resist them,
• Withdraw your benefits and virtues from evil altars.
• To destroy evil altars, you can curse them, you can call the fire of God or divine hurricane of the Holy Spirit to blow them away.

CONCLUSION.

Pray aggressive prayers;

1. I render every aggressive altar impotent in the Name of Jesus.
2. Lord, sent Your Fire to destroy every evil altar fashioned against me, In Jesus Name.
3. I withdraw my name from evil altars in the Name of Jesus Christ.
4. I withdraw my breakthroughs, glory, prosperity, blessing, from evil altars, In the Name of Jesus.